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David Karsten Daniels
12+ albums
indiesinger-songwriterfolkindie folkMellow
about
David Karsten Daniels (born in Lubbock, TX, on 20 August 1979) is an American singer-songwriter with an affinity for "slow-creeping songs" that explore life & death, family dynamics, religion, neuroscience, the nature of change and the natural world. Now based in Dallas (by way of Alabama, North Carolina, Oregon, and San Francisco), his music relays a personal history of diverse musical experiences - among them, a childhood of hymn singing, membership of a high school jazz band, and formal university training in composition, theory, free improvisation, and performance art. For several years, Daniels travelled throughout Texas and France recording quietly in small rooms, where his formal training began to give way to four-track experimentation, juxtaposing the phase pieces and improvisation of his academic life with lo-fi acoustic compositions. This itinerant approach to recording produced his first two albums ('The Mayflower' 2000; 'Out From Under Ligne 4', 2001) , which employ the use of whatever (non)instruments were at hand, such as dropped coins and pencil scratches in place of drum kits, or lyrics composed by rearranging the contents of the daily newspaper. Daniels finished his studies and spent the subsequent year in Portland, Oregon, briefly experimenting with a laptop before moving to North Carolina with Daniel Hart and Alex Lazara to found the Bu_Hanan Collective. There, while giving his first two albums a wider release, he wrote and recorded the self-released alb
